Let me say this upfront: I’m from the Northeast of the US and everything about Miami in December feels wrong. Palm trees and halter tops (do people still wear these?) just shouldn’t be a winter thing. Working this boat with Captain Contemptible does not arouse…

Little Danny sees a hotel and trees his father, not nice the typewriter like ice to the touch.   Twins lure him to play in a bloodied hallway where they want him to stay forever.   A pus-bloated woman beckons, an omen of the wringing…

It could always be counted on that regardless of what the rest of the year held, Christmas was magical. It was perfect. Regardless of what the rest of the year doled if you could hold out for Christmas everything would be okay. Hope would be…

I shouldn’t get caught up in the details   as sone of you are unreachable by nature   the rest of you are intangible unless you get   caught in the details unless those very details keep me alive Philip V. Coombs 6-7am

The drive along the main highway seemed endless, holding my sisters hand as the road rolled on behind us. Our first holiday. Through country, small town, city, a pit stop, in a strange home, filled with family. the noise of the city, unfamiliar, restless, back…

I ended up having a lot of fun with this prompt. I think it could use some editing but who knows if I ever will do that. I guess spoilers for A Quiet Place 2   A Quiet Place   Soft steps in sand We…

Amid the Winter   It is likely that the winter wind, wending ‘round the windows again, will whine and whistle, with a moose-like moan, all spike and thistle, with spiny groan.   And then in haste, will whistle away, dust dairy and dinghy on a…

Sun and Soul   All round me are words, and words and words, today the world is a little more my own. I don’t know politics but I know the names, it was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came. What is this drink but…

Fireworks. Bells. Jolly times. Old to a new year.

stop there you’ve ruined it I can’t find myself here cabinets locked to keep ants out, too you win (this is the worst writer’s block I’ve ever had during a marathon)